Archive - May 6, 2008 - story
Hoff-POWER! Completes Rehab, Is Iowa Bound
Submitted by Arizona Phil on Tue, 05/06/2008 - 4:03pm.
Micah Hoffpauir completed his injury rehab today, driving in the EXST Cubs first run in a 9-7 victory over the EXST Angels at Fitch Park Field #3 this morning in Mesa, before heading back to Des Moines to rejoin the Iowa Cubs. .
Game 33 Thread / Cubs @ Reds (2 of 3)
Submitted by Cubnut on Tue, 05/06/2008 - 12:17pm.
Game Chat | Press Pass | BR Preview
| SP | Carlos Zambrano |
SP |
Aaron Harang |
| 4-1, 2.11, 35 K, 11 BB | 1-4, 2.98, 41 K, 11 BB | ||
| LF |
Alfonso Soriano | CF |
Ryan Freel |
| SS |
Ryan Theriot | RF |
*Ken Griffey Jr. |
| 1B |
Derrek Lee | 2B |
Brandon Phillips |
| 3B |
Aramis Ramirez | 1B |
*Joey Votto |
| RF |
*Kosuke Fukudome | 3B |
Edwin Encarnacion |
| C |
Geovany Soto | LF |
*Adam Dunn |
| 2B |
Ronny Cedeño | SS |
Jeff Keppinger |
| CF |
*Felix Pie | C |
*Paul Bako |
| P |
#Carlos Zambrano |
P |
Aaron Harang |
Aramis Ramirez returns to the Cub lineup, and Ronny Cedeño gets a start at second base.
In the pitching matchup, Carlos Zambrano, who was one horrendous Kerry Wood inning away from winning his fifth game of the season last time out against Milwaukee, goes up against curveball-flingin' Aaron Harang, Zambrano beat the Reds in the middle contest of their three-game visit to Wrigley Field a few weeks back; Harang started the series opener and got smacked around (6 IP, 8 H, 5 ER) en route to a 9-5 Cubs win.
"Cubs win"...those are two words that haven't been used very often around here lately.
Awful Announcing
Submitted by Rob G. on Tue, 05/06/2008 - 10:22am.
So I tuned in to watch last night's game as I usually do on my mlb.tv. That generally means the home team broadcasters. That also usually means a healthy dose of Cubs bashing. I can handle a little homerism from the broadcasting crew, whether it be known Cub hater Milo Hamilton or the White Sox crew. But I'm not sure I've heard such an obvious agenda to go after all things Cubs as I did last night.
The crew was Thom Brenneman and color man Chris Welsh. Ah Brenneman, that name seems familiar, doesn't it? It appears that Marty and son got together for lunch Monday and compared game notes. So with all due respect to the actual "Awful Announcing", let's take a look at some of what Brenneman and Welsh said, thanks to the beauty of archived mlb.tv games. The quotes may miss a word or two and I generally skipped over the actual play-by-play moments to shorten the bites, but I promise you this is what they actually were saying, in the spirit they intended (Contains strong language...from me).